Other Sports
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Jim O'Donnell: Online series about Arlington Park auctions is Kleenex reading for someFeb 05, 2023 4:30 am - AS A GENERAL RULE, autopsy reports are not recommended reading for the "Headspace"/meditation crowd. And some might say that Patti Davis did not produce merely a summary...
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Iowa voids Illini students' tickets when it discovers prankFeb 02, 2023 12:00 am - It would have been a great college prank, but the Iowa athletic department crushed it. The Illinois student spirit group "Orange Krush" had its order for 200 tickets to ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Both "The Score" and AM-1000 remain lost in spaceFeb 01, 2023 12:00 am - TAKE ONE FLOUNDERING CAPTIVE SPORTS CITY and mix in two feeble sports talk radio stations and what's the result? Like Billy Preston once sang, "Nothin' from nothin' leav...
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Malinin wins U.S. men's skating title; Highland Park's Brown takes secondJan 29, 2023 12:00 am - SAN JOSE, Calif. - Ilia Malinin won his first national men's title on Sunday, delivering a 177.38 free skate for a total score of 287.74 on the final day of the U.S. Fig...
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Baseball Way Back: White Sox pitcher Peters a double threat with arm and batJan 28, 2023 12:00 am - When the news arrived of the passing of former White Sox pitcher Gary Peters, I immediately thought back to the times when I watched Sox games on WFLD, Channel-32 with J...
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Illinois natives who could be selected in the 2023 NFL draft
Jan 23, 2023 12:00 am - The NFL Draft is about three months away. The annual NFL combine, where many of the top prospects will show off their talents in front of NFL scout, is coming up next mo...
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Jim O'Donnell: Swanson, Benintendi stoke the hot stove Ins and Outs of a clement JanuaryJan 22, 2023 5:00 am - MILD ADO ABOUT SOMETHING, spotlighting highs and lows as the inexorable trek toward Super Bowl 57 rambles on: In - Applauding the return of some Hot Stove League to Chi...
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Baseball Way Back: The other Frank Thomas who made a name in Chicago baseballJan 21, 2023 12:00 am - The Big Hurt wasn't the first Frank Thomas to play for a Chicago major league team. Another slugger, Frank Thomas, had two tours of duty with the Chicago Cubs in the 196...
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Glenbrook North graduate a semifinalist for NCAA Woman of the YearJan 18, 2023 12:00 am - Glenbrook North High School graduate Ellen Gilbert, a former star swimmer at Illinois Wesleyan University, was honored Jan. 12 at the NCAA Convention in San Antonio. Gil...
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Why Warren hire is curious for both Bears, Big TenJan 15, 2023 5:00 am - It is not unusual for the Bears to move the furniture around after littering another season with their own special kind of feng shui; that is, making an odor seem like a...